People Advisory Manager

4 weeks ago


Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom RSM Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced People Advisory Manager to join our team at RSM. As a key member of our People Operations and Advisory team, you will play a critical role in the development and delivery of our people strategy, making a significant impact on our organization's success.

Reporting to the Associate Director – People Operations and Advisory, you will work closely with a Business Partner for our tax service line to develop and evolve our people strategy. You will be responsible for operationally delivering this strategy through your People Advisory team, providing support to the Regional Managing Partner /Office Managing Partners, and ensuring people support is delivered to a high level in relation to fostering a sense of engagement and belonging to an office and a region.

You will lead and develop the People Advisory team to deliver a premium experience for employees across the whole of the employee lifecycle, promoting RSM's employer brand and maintaining RSM's position as an employer of choice. This includes establishing effective relationships with relevant SLH's, SL leadership teams, and partners, RMPs/OMPs, the Business Partner, and service line people teams to drive a premium employee experience.

Key Responsibilities:
  • Act as the focal point for the employee experience within the allocated service line and region, including wellbeing, inclusion, engagement, etc., working with the Engagement and Wellbeing team and delivering service line and regional strategies as appropriate.
  • Establish effective relationships with relevant SLH's, SL leadership teams, and partners, RMPs/OMPs, the Business Partner, and service line people teams to drive a premium employee experience.
  • Play a key role in initiating and leading people change programmes both on a service line basis and regionally, ensuring impact and risk are fully understood and well managed.
  • Contribute to people strategy, driving high-quality interactions and establishing seamless processes to support the aim of RSM to be an employer of choice.
  • Contribute to the culture of innovation within the firm, providing valuable insights to support employee experience issues and actively developing knowledge and awareness through a range of channels, data, external sources, latest thinking, and best practice.
  • Understand and respond to current and future market trends and forces affecting the business through developing a deep understanding of the specific service line/regional/local employment markets.
  • Ensure that existing people policies and procedures are adhered to and provide commercial solutions where relevant. Provide support, advice, and training to key stakeholders with regard to application where required.
  • Manage performance (including appraisal) and ER matters (disciplinary, grievance, mediation, capability, redundancy, outplacement, etc.) effectively, ensuring employees are treated with care, support, and fairness, limiting risk to the firm, and managing accurate administration and reporting.
  • Manage annual employee lifecycle processes across the service line, salary and bonus reviews, appraisals, working with other specialists within the wider people team, central admin team, etc., to maintain and develop processes and procedures to ensure a consistently excellent experience across the employee lifecycle.
  • Work with the Early Careers and Experienced Hire teams to understand resource requirements and ensure that service line attraction/recruitment processes are driven forward, managing as appropriate delivery of trainee attraction plans, resource planning, etc.
  • Champion the development and use of people analytics within the service line to deliver insights, improve management decision making, and focus on resources and efficiencies.
  • Lead (as required) and contribute to nationally driven initiatives that continuously improve the employee experience.
  • Lead and develop the people advisory team, to continuously build capabilities and technical competence, providing development and growth opportunities, identifying improvements, and managing underperformance when required, and sharing best practice with the other People Advisory Managers.

Candidate Requirements

To be successful in this role, you will need to have:
  • CIPD qualified, level 7 or above.
  • A high degree of business acumen with the interpersonal skills, courage, and expertise to effectively influence business leaders.
  • A strong understanding and awareness of best people practice across the employee lifecycle, the importance of the employee experience, and its impact on employer brand.
  • An effective People Advisory Manager with a proven track record of leading a team to create and deliver business-focused people solutions.
  • Proven team skills and a strong collaborator, with the ability to partner across the people team to drive effective business support.
  • Knowledge of people future thinking and employment trends, and a forward-focused approach to operational people development and delivery.
  • Evidenced ability to develop relevant and commercial people propositions and gain buy-in and support from business leaders.
  • Track record of initiating and leading the development of people processes and delivery of change projects.
  • In-depth knowledge of current employment legislation and extensive experience of managing employee relations effectively within a regulated environment.
  • Experience in delivering employee engagement, wellbeing, and inclusion strategies.
  • A critical thinker with a strong sense of curiosity, bringing innovation, challenge, and insight to the role.
  • Ability to identify people risk and apply effective mitigation strategies.
  • Experience in the development and application of people analytics to inform both people and business decision making.


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